rice grass

British  

noun

1. another name for cord grass

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Example Sentences

Specific to Arizona, galleta, sand dropseed, Indian rice grass and grama grass are better for growing during a drought than fescue, rye and Kentucky bluegrass, Hauser says.

From Washington Post • Sep. 20, 2021

On a second foray, the men light upon five more mustangs picking at strands of Indian rice grass in a boulder-strewn ravine.

From Time Magazine Archive

While she gathered plants, he watched the cattle grazing in the tall yellow rice grass that grew above the arroyo just to the edge of the juniper trees.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

The tall yellow rice grass and the broken gray shale ridge were undisturbed by outlines of darker objects that did not belong with the junipers and yuccas.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

Pausing but to take a quick and cautious glance about him he shoved the frail craft into the lake and with a few quiet strokes buried himself in the rice grass.

From The Courage of Captain Plum by Curwood, James Oliver